I have this little story about hair. Last year I got my internship at an IT company under the Ministry of Telecommunication. It was a good place with a good (geek) people. But there's one thing that I found weird. When I went home from the office, I found out that a lot of people who walked together with me at the sidewalk had almost the same hairstyle. I bet it was hard to recognize someone from their back. I mean, today's companies are like a factory, a soy sauce factory not Warhol factory, they try to create people look the same. It felt like school all over again. I realized that it was pretty weird feeling for me because college life is much more free than that (despite the fact that some people in my faculty were so judgmental); there was barely no rules. We could have any hairstyle that we want, even we could wear flip-flops like Mark Zuckerberg to the class. I'm not suggesting that all companies should be like that (imagine if Vogue has an employee who wears flip-flops in their office, duh), I guess my point is that each company should let their employee to have sense of freedom; a bold identity that can help them to build their characters. And one of those things that I suggest is to let their employee have a free hairstyle. It shouldn't matter if men have long hair as long as they still consider about fashion rules.
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| Andy and the crew of The Factory, NYC. |
I hope I could see more things like The Warhol Factory in some companies. It's super creative and everything is unique in its own way. And I also hope that 'school rules' would be stopped so people can have their own strong character. Freedom in hair is a must.